2025 Model

As we move through 2025, Ivanhoe East Primary School is proud to share our organisational structure, built to ensure expert leadership, targeted support, and effective communication across our school. Meet the people leading key portfolios and find out who to contact if you need help in a specific area.

Principal – Tom Boyle
Tom oversees school-wide operations, finances, curriculum, wellbeing, and assessment. He also leads community engagement and chairs the School Council Executive.
Contact for high-level school operations, strategic direction, and community partnerships.

Assistant Principals
Ben Phillips
Leads Teaching & Learning, including data, reporting, facilities, OH&S, timetables, events, and staffing logistics.
Contact for curriculum structures, events, or operational planning.
Amanda Dwyer
Leads Student Wellbeing, student support services, NCCD, ES coordination, attendance, policies,
Contact for student wellbeing and services including attendance and school policies.

Learning Specialists
Alex Silvestro – Teaching & Learning
Supports curriculum planning, assessment practices, and staff development.
Contact for teaching strategies and assessment practices.
Joanna King – Engagement & Wellbeing
Leads disability inclusion, inclusive practices, and community tool Seesaw.
Contact for inclusive practices, engagement with School Psychologist or Seesaw family engagement.

AIP Portfolio Leaders

• Literacy – Meg Dickson

Leads school-wide literacy pedagogy and assessment.

• Numeracy – Lucy Foster

Leads maths teaching, assessment, and differentiation.

• Engagement & Wellbeing – Georgia Lay

Leads wellbeing programs including RRRR, Smiling Minds & Zones of Regulation.

Contact the relevant leader for AIP-aligned strategies in literacy, numeracy or wellbeing.

School Psychologist – Zoe Bloore
Supports student wellbeing through group/individual sessions, staff capacity building and community connection.
Contact Jo King who can provide support on student mental health or psychological services that Zoe can offer.

Specialised Whole-School Roles

• Sustainability – Megan Lannen & Larissa Lamers

• Indigenous Perspectives – Beth Stewart & Lucy Foster

• Digital Technologies – Candice Koranias

• Student Leadership – Jessie Wright

• Anaphylaxis – Cosette Pearce

Contact for area-specific programs and initiatives.

Year Level PLC Leaders (Main Contacts)

• Foundation – Madison Brown

• Year 1 – Octavia Pini

• Year 2 – Cosette Pearce

• Year 3 – Candice Koranias

• Year 4 – Connor Thomson

• Year 5 – Ashley Hamilton

• Year 6 – Adrienne Posar

• Specialists – Lauren Fairbairn

PLC Leaders are your go-to for curriculum, wellbeing, and engagement queries at each year level.

We’re proud of our dynamic and distributed leadership team that works together to drive improvement, wellbeing, and engagement for every learner.